[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

1) As the person who posted the first comment after the OP, and am only now making my second comment in the thread, I am amused that this thread is still going and nine pages long.

2) If one does an Advanced Search one will see that this thread is only the latest in a number of many long thread on this Rule.

3) One will also see that I have always been a proponent of the Interpretation that many many people here do not like. And by always, I mean since 1971, when I started officiating. I graduated from H.S. in 1969 (I started playing JrHS basketball in 1964-64.) and I know that this was the Interpretation from the National Basketball Committee of the United States and Canada (the rules maker for boys'/girls' H.S. and men's college until it split into the NFHS and NCAA Men's Rules Committees either after the 1977-78 or 1978-79 seasons, and without climbing up into the attic to check I am favoring the former rather than the latter.

4) Since I retired from officiating women's college and men's jr. college after the 2007-08 season I download the NCAA Men's and Women's Rules and Casebook Plays but I do not really read them in detail as I probably should and rely on Jeff and Bob, to keep me abreast of those Rules when they make comments in the Forum.

5) And after nine pages are we not beating a dead horse to further death. LOL!

Have a good one everyone!

MTD, Sr.